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KMB vs LWLG

Side-by-side comparison of Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) and Lightwave Logic Inc. (LWLG): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • KMB operates in Consumer Discretionary, while LWLG operates in Industrials - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • KMB is the larger of the two at $46.78B, about 29.5x LWLG ($1.59B).
  • Over the past year, KMB is down 26.3% and LWLG is up 779.9% - LWLG leads by 806.3 points.
  • LWLG has been more active in the news (8 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for KMB).
  • KMB has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for LWLG).
PerformanceKMB-26.35%LWLG+779.91%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricKMBLWLG
Company
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Lightwave Logic Inc.
Price
$97.73-1.31%
$10.29+1.53%
Market cap
$46.78B
$1.59B
1M return
-1.81%
-30.56%
1Y return
-26.35%
+779.91%
Industry
Containers/Packaging
Containers/Packaging
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
News (4w)
4
8
Recent ratings
25
0
KMB

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care and consumer tissue products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and K-C Professional. The Personal Care segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Sweety, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Softex, Poise, and other brand names. The Consumer Tissue segment provides facial and bathroom tissues, paper towels, napkins, and related products under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve, and other brand names. The K-C Professional segment offers wipers, tissues, towels, apparel, soaps, and sanitizers under the Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech, and KleenGuard brands. The company sells household use products directly to supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores, and other retail outlets, as well as through other distributors and e-commerce; and away-from-home use products directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and public facilities, as well as through distributors and e-commerce. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

LWLG

Lightwave Logic Inc.

Lightwave Logic, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on the development of photonic devices and non-linear optical polymer materials systems for fiber-optic data communications and optical computing markets in the United States. The company is involved in designing and synthesizing organic chromophores for use in its electro-optic polymer systems and photonic device designs. It also offers electro-optic modulators, which converts data from electric signals to optical signals for transmission over fiber-optic cables; and polymer photonic integrated circuits, a photonic device, which integrates various photonic functions on a single chip. In addition, the company provides the ridge waveguide modulator, a modulator that fabricates the waveguide within a layer of its electro-optic polymer system. It focuses on selling its products to electro-optic device manufacturers, such as telecommunications component and systems manufacturers, networking and switching suppliers, semiconductor companies, Web 2.0 media, computing companies, aerospace companies, and government agencies. The company was formerly known as Third-order Nanotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Lightwave Logic, Inc. in March 2008. Lightwave Logic, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

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